The lively, compelling, rarely-updated Waggish
October 19, 2008 6:43 PM Subscribe
Waggish would be one of the choicest blogs around if he updated more, but I suppose I can settle for what there is. If you've never read it, you'll know how good it is when I tell you about a few of the coolest posts: an inquest on "left-brained" literature, a short review of John Williams' Stoner, an appreciation of the great Shohei Imamura and three part coverage of the ultimate film, Béla Tarr's Sátántangó.
Um, wut.
posted by colinmarshall at 7:03 PM on October 19, 2008
posted by colinmarshall at 7:03 PM on October 19, 2008
I think unSane is subtley suggesting the audience who will share your view that this is lively and compelling might be smaller than you think.
posted by bystander at 7:17 PM on October 19, 2008
posted by bystander at 7:17 PM on October 19, 2008
Admittedly, I did link to my personal favorite posts, so don't think they represent the entirety of the blog's scope.
posted by colinmarshall at 7:22 PM on October 19, 2008
posted by colinmarshall at 7:22 PM on October 19, 2008
There are very few other directors who deal with the world in such an all-encompassing totality, without the desire to tie it down into a preconceived structure.
I do like Shohei Imamura, but Roger Ebert, Waggish ain't.
posted by KokuRyu at 7:27 PM on October 19, 2008
I do like Shohei Imamura, but Roger Ebert, Waggish ain't.
posted by KokuRyu at 7:27 PM on October 19, 2008
Yet more compelling, Varieties of Unreligious Experience.
posted by RGD at 7:38 PM on October 19, 2008
posted by RGD at 7:38 PM on October 19, 2008
That said, I do quite like Waggish. His Coetzee reviews inspired me to read nearly every novel by the man.
posted by RGD at 7:40 PM on October 19, 2008
posted by RGD at 7:40 PM on October 19, 2008
Waggish is an excellent blog that has been linked here before, but only for the Proust posts; since the blogger is a member who commented in that thread, you might want to tone down the assholery, if you can bring yourself to such a superhuman level of restraint.
posted by languagehat at 7:52 PM on October 19, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by languagehat at 7:52 PM on October 19, 2008 [2 favorites]
So this is one of them blogs I've been hearing so much about lately?
posted by mds35 at 8:11 PM on October 19, 2008
posted by mds35 at 8:11 PM on October 19, 2008
Nothing sends subliminal messages warning you to hit 'back' before it's too late like a sidebar headline that says "100 Most Recent Essays."
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 8:25 PM on October 19, 2008
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 8:25 PM on October 19, 2008
Nothing sends subliminal messages warning you to hit 'back' before it's too late like a sidebar headline that says "100 Most Recent Essays."
True. In fact, when I hear that somebody's written an essay recently, I just sock 'im then and there. Gotta stay on the safe side.
posted by colinmarshall at 8:29 PM on October 19, 2008
True. In fact, when I hear that somebody's written an essay recently, I just sock 'im then and there. Gotta stay on the safe side.
posted by colinmarshall at 8:29 PM on October 19, 2008
True. In fact, when I hear that somebody's written an essay recently, I just sock 'im then and there. Gotta stay on the safe side.
Gaah, could you stop moderating your own thread?
posted by KokuRyu at 8:35 PM on October 19, 2008 [1 favorite]
Gaah, could you stop moderating your own thread?
posted by KokuRyu at 8:35 PM on October 19, 2008 [1 favorite]
All I'm saying is this: if we don't band together and shut down the essayists, who will? It's a classic collective action problem. If we can't stop global warming and we can't stop nuclear proliferation, we can at least stop essay proliferation. I know it's not much. But it's a start.
posted by colinmarshall at 8:48 PM on October 19, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by colinmarshall at 8:48 PM on October 19, 2008 [1 favorite]
[NOT ESSAYIST-IST]
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 9:05 PM on October 19, 2008
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 9:05 PM on October 19, 2008
Well, his capsule summaries of "left-brained" writers are not very compelling. Borges "not widely read"? Pavic "emotionally sterile"? Yeah, no.
posted by nasreddin at 9:15 PM on October 19, 2008
posted by nasreddin at 9:15 PM on October 19, 2008
hey got a(n unopened) copy of 'almanac of fall' right beside me!
btw, it's like the end of 'the squid and the whale' :P
oh and i like his idea of placing air quotes 'over the earth', cf.
posted by kliuless at 9:36 PM on October 19, 2008
btw, it's like the end of 'the squid and the whale' :P
oh and i like his idea of placing air quotes 'over the earth', cf.
posted by kliuless at 9:36 PM on October 19, 2008
I'se a take on any one of yaz guys who knocks the Wagman. *flexes biceps, such as they are*
(I'm not sure what kind of funny accent I'm trying for here, but go with me on this.)
posted by jokeefe at 9:58 PM on October 19, 2008
(I'm not sure what kind of funny accent I'm trying for here, but go with me on this.)
posted by jokeefe at 9:58 PM on October 19, 2008
Surely one of the most erudite and broad-thinking bloggers. One of my all-time favorites.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 12:18 AM on October 20, 2008
posted by Joseph Gurl at 12:18 AM on October 20, 2008
Waggish is an excellent blog. I really wish there were more blogs like this.
posted by vacapinta at 1:45 AM on October 20, 2008
posted by vacapinta at 1:45 AM on October 20, 2008
Thought you were making a respectable try for Popeye, jokeefe, and I was interested by the implication that the old salt was a bit of an essay-lover on the side. There's a man whose take on Proust would be worth reading. De snows o' yesteryear am where dey am, Marcel.
posted by Phanx at 1:56 AM on October 20, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Phanx at 1:56 AM on October 20, 2008 [1 favorite]
I think he meant that Borges isn't widely read by the group of engineers he was observing, not by readers in general.
posted by harriet vane at 2:50 AM on October 20, 2008
posted by harriet vane at 2:50 AM on October 20, 2008
I'm just posting in this thread because I wanted to use the word "erudicy". Flanked with ordinary sized quotation marks, of course.
posted by delmoi at 7:14 AM on October 20, 2008
posted by delmoi at 7:14 AM on October 20, 2008
The assholery is unwarranted.
Meanwhile, having worked in software for a decade, I'd really like to meet some engineers like Mr. Waggish's.
posted by cobra libre at 12:17 PM on October 20, 2008
Meanwhile, having worked in software for a decade, I'd really like to meet some engineers like Mr. Waggish's.
posted by cobra libre at 12:17 PM on October 20, 2008
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